On a somewhat related story, I once spoke to Gary Conway and Don Matheson of Land Of The Giants fame at an East Coast Chiller 'con. They had an interesting story to tell:

According to both of them, years back, Land Of The Giants was taken off the air in Romania and mainland Eastern Europe back in the 80's or 90's, because the then-Communist government had a problem with the show's theme of "the little people against the State."

Seems that anything that gives any sort of hope, or deemed as an alternate form of revolt or sabotage against the State (as these shows I mentioned would be in these cases) is a no-no in Red Land.

Wondering if they got clued in that sometimes writers use science fiction to covertly criticize modern day trends and thinking and they figured, "Ah, crap! Someone could be condemning Communism and we wouldn't even know it! Ah, hell, let's just ban ALL creative TV!" Or something similar.